BACKGROUND Staged palliative surgery markedly shifts the balance of volume load on a single ventricle and pulmonary vascular bed. Blalock-Taussig shunt necessitates a single ventricle eject blood to both the systemic and pulmonary circulation. On the contrary, bidirectional cavopulmonary shunt release the single ventricle from pulmonary circulation. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of tricu...

CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC REVIEWS of mixed (discordant) levocardia (atrial situs solitus with L-loop with or without corrected transposition of the great arteries) have stressed the high association of this lesion with ventricular septal defect, pulmonic stenosis, left atrioventricular (A-V) valve regurgitation with or without stenosis, and Ebstein's disease of the left A-V valve.'Obstruction to ...

A case of atresia of the aortic orifice with associated hypoplasia of the aorta, patent ductus arteriosus, patent foramen ovale, miniature mitral orifice, rudimentary left ventride, hypertrophy and dilatation of the right auricle, ventride, and pulmonary artery, and hemangiomata of the tricuspid valve has recently been observed in this laboratory. In Abbott's reviewt of 1000 cardiac malformatio...

the aim of this study is to evaluate early and late results of surgery in children with congenital heart disease and decreased pulmonary blood flow, who underwent a palliative systemic-to-pulmonary shunt. during the past 9 years, 157 systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts were performed in 130 patients (69 males, 61 females) with ages from 1 day to 31 years old. they had been evaluated for their c...